Actually this is not a bad idea if we accept that Arata's results of several years ago were accurate and scalable.
Arata found nanopowder that gave modest heat from pressure alone. No external heat was used, only pressure. He used grams of specialty material. If the basic Arata powder was to be used in Miley's conception, BUT in kilograms quantities instead of grams, and only hydrogen pressure was applied, then no startup device or external heat source is required - to the extent it is scalable. >From that perspective, this is not a bad idea - but one can reasonably doubt that Miley actually has good evidence of scalability to high levels of Arata type nanopowder. In spite of no proof-of-concept (at high power levels) - and in terms of the other ARPA-E entries, most of which are just as speculative, it makes no sense to be overly critical of this one. Jones From: Jones Beene From: Edmund Storms * [snip] motor that drives a fan. No provision is made for control of temperature . Wait a minute. Why doesn't the airflow from the fan control the temperature by removing heat from the fins which are themselves heated by the TEG ? Are you complaining that he did not show heat sensors and computer circuitry used to control airflow? You do realize that only a fraction of the electricity generated from the TEG drives the fan ? Presumably airflow is metered by a temperature sensor (not shown) but engineers do not need to see every detail, as it is implied and obvious. Jones
